fake passports
Fraudulent travel papers
Fake passports are fraudulent travel documents—either forged from scratch or genuine passports altered with false information.
They're used to cross borders illegally, assume false identities, or evade law enforcement.
The term covers both crude forgeries and sophisticated counterfeits that can fool border agents: They discovered a ring producing fake passports for human traffickers.
- forgedMade by smithing, or faked
- counterfeitFraudulent imitation
- identityWho someone is
- identity theftStealing personal data criminally
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
human smuggling · border · border crossing · fraud · document fraud · documents · trafficking · stamps · visa · illegal · underground · criminal · immigration · fugitive · on the run · alias · paper trail · falsified
- black marketblack market, illegal trade, smugglers, contraband, traffickers
- document frauddocument fraud, forged documents, falsification, counterfeit documents, forged signatures
- smugglingcontraband, smugglers, human smuggling, smuggling rings, people smuggling